Global Planning Grid :About
From Global Planning Grid
- The Global Planning Grid Initiative
Many interesting initiatives at the national level have begun to explore infrastructure to support global sharing of content and systems for research collaboration. In the United States many of these developments are taking place under the National Science Foundation (NSF’s) Cyberinfrastructure program. In Europe and Australia, these efforts appear under the theme of e-Science. Traditionally, scientific data collaborations have been driving the need for technology development—however, new communities in the humanities, the arts and social science are now appearing. So far, largely absent from these debates, have been Urban Planning (let alone Global Planning) groups. Much benefit can be gained from case studies focused on new cyberinfrastructure developments (including, for instance, projects creating useful tools for distributed data management, long-term preservation of content relevant to global planning, and the development of archives). The challenge is to leverage existing efforts –not just in the sciences, but in the arts, social sciences and humanities as well.
During the World Planning School Congress (WPSC2) in Mexico City, July 11-16, 2006, a group of colleagues cane together to discuss the prospects of creating Global Planning Grids. The GPEIG web site describes Grids and their potential applications for planning research, pedagogy and outreach.
See: http://gpeig.org/GRID-splash.htm
Other GPEIG links: Home page: http://gpeig.org/index.htm
Progressive Regionalism in Global Perspective: http://gpeig.org/progressive/prog-splash.htm
Examples of Portals, Grids and other relevant sites: http://gpeig.org/GRID-splash-cases.htm
